How do you plan your trades? What is your daily routine for analyzing the market, setting up and executing your trades? What do you do after that? How do you manage your trades once they are live? What is your plan?
I thought you would like a quick... Continue Reading

How many times have you seen a signal or potential trade setup in the market and for whatever reason you didn’t take it, only to wake up the next morning and see the market has taken off without you on board? This has happened to all of us at some point,... Continue Reading

Technical analysis is the study of the price movement or price action of a market over time. Traders make use of price charts and various technical indicators that come with those charts to perform their technical analysis.
However, it is my strong belief... Continue Reading

One of the most important things we have to do as price action traders, is determine whether a market is trending or not. The answer to this will determine which approach you take to a particular market, so it’s critical that you understand how to properly... Continue Reading

Stop loss placement is perhaps not the most glamorous of trading topics to discuss, but it is a critically important one. If you do not know how to properly place your stop losses you will be in for a very, very rough ride as you trade the markets.... Continue Reading

Trading is not the easiest profession in the world to succeed at, as you may well know by now. We need to do everything we can to put the odds of success as far in our favor as possible. However, most traders do the exact opposite; they turn the odds of... Continue Reading

Does the following trading scenario sound familiar to you?...
A market has broken up through a level and starts trending aggressively, starting to gain a lot of momentum. Then all of a sudden, you see the market rotate back to a good solid level and then a... Continue Reading

As a price action trader, we basically have two ways to trade; with or without a ‘confirmation’ signal. Now, I put the word ‘confirmation’ in single quotes because it has come to my attention that there has recently been some overly-literal... Continue Reading

You've probably read trading articles that talk about how your "winners need to be greater than your losers", it's used so much that it's become cliché. It is NOT as simple as having a series of trades and just keeping your risk at 1r and your average profit... Continue Reading

One of my favourite price action trading patterns is the fakey pattern. There are many reasons why I like this pattern but perhaps the most important is the meaning behind it and its ability to be a reliable indicator of potential near-term (and sometimes... Continue Reading

The inside bar pattern can be a very powerful price action signal if you understand how to trade it properly. Unfortunately, many traders do not know how to trade it properly and as a result, they end up losing money over and over and become frustrated with... Continue Reading

If trading seems frustrating and difficult to you, don’t worry, you are not alone. Many traders, if not most, begin their trading careers with lofty goals and a full tank of hope, but those things can fade very quickly if you aren’t approaching the market... Continue Reading

The pin bar is perhaps the most powerful price action signal that has ever existed. If I could pick only one price action pattern to trade with for the rest of my life, I would probably pick the pin bar. However, despite its simple structure, the pin bar can... Continue Reading

Have you taken what you thought was a ‘perfect’ looking price action signal only to see it ‘blow up’ in your face immediately after entering? Did that leave you confused, angry or desperate to understand why it happened and what you did wrong? Well,... Continue Reading

I get emails almost every day from people asking me questions on how to properly identify and draw support and resistance levels on their charts. This tells me there’s a lot of confusion and probably misinformation out there about support and resistance... Continue Reading

The pin bar price action pattern is a very powerful trading signal and one of my personal favourites. However, if you are simply trying to ‘learn it by yourself’, you are probably experiencing ‘mixed results’, to say the least. There are many... Continue Reading

A simple truth of trading is that markets are often moving sideways, neither trending up or down. It's in these sideways market conditions that traders do the most damage to themselves. I'm sure you've experienced the infuriating feeling that comes with... Continue Reading

Breakouts are tempting, in fact, most people trade in-line with the direction price is currently moving without much thought; they are reactive with a ‘herd’ mentality. Now, one might say trend following or trading with the herd / sheep is the correct... Continue Reading

I have long preached the value of mastering just one price action setup at a time. In today’s lesson, I am going to discuss why it’s so important to do this and the profound implications it will have on your trading.
I often find that traders don’t... Continue Reading

Many people have unrealistic expectations about how long a trade will take to play out. This causes all sorts of problems for them as they trade such as exiting too soon, over-trading and taking small profits, to name a few. Despite what most people think,... Continue Reading

As you probably already know, trade entries are very important in determining whether you succeed or fail as a trader. One good trade entry can make or break your month in the market. Yet, traders tend to take trade entries for granted by assuming they are... Continue Reading

“Let your winners run” they always say. Great! But, HOW do I do that? How do I turn small trades into big winners? You’ve probably asked yourself this many times. As great as all these old trading aphorisms are, they do seem a bit vague and don’t... Continue Reading

How often do you see big moves in the market like we have seen recently, but you never find yourself profiting much from them? How often do you close a trade out prematurely just because it’s gone against you a bit and you ‘freaked out’ because you... Continue Reading

Today’s lesson is going to be about changing how you think about trading. Instead of acting on your first impulse in the market, I want you to stop and think about what’s REALLY going on…
I want you to look at trading as two dimensional; somebody... Continue Reading

If you’re a regular follower of my blog, you know I’ve written articles discussing “sniper” and “crocodile” trading and the benefits of this trading style. In today’s lesson, I am going to help you understand what this trading style is all... Continue Reading

In today’s lesson, I’m going to share with you a very powerful trading ‘tip’ that will significantly improve your understanding of price dynamics as well as how to read a ‘naked’ price chart.
The ‘tip’ is somewhat simple on the surface, but... Continue Reading

As price action traders, we primarily study charts and price bars, and the price bars in each time frame show us the ‘emotion’ of price for that specific period of time. Whether it’s a 1 hour, 4 hour or daily chart, each price bar on the chart shows the... Continue Reading

One of the key philosophies of my Forex trading approach is to trade "end of day", and by that I mean trading after the New York close, which marks the end of the current Forex trading day. Many traders email me asking me things like "Why is the New York... Continue Reading

If your Forex trading is not going the way you want it to and you feel overwhelmed by the amount of market data bombarding your brain every time you sit down to analyze the markets, you probably need to readjust your trading strategy so that your primary... Continue Reading

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